Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimer
Nadine Gordimerwas a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was recognized as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity"...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth20 November 1923
hearing keenness revive
Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone.
survival different wagers
In various and different circumstances certain objects and individuals are going to turn out to be vital. The wager of survival cannot, by its nature, reveal which, in advance of events.
white firsts would-be
If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa
believe men emotional
Where do whites fit in the New Africa? Nowhere, I'm inclined to sayand I do believe that it is true that even the gentlest and most westernised Africans would like the emotional idea of the continent entirely without the complication of the presence of the white man for a generation or two. But nowhere, as an answer for us whites, is in the same category as remarks like What's the use of living? in the face of the threat of atomic radiation. We are living; we are in Africa.
change thinking support
Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
church entering crosses
Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.
taken loss preparation
it's impossible to conquer all fear and loss by preparation. There are always sources of desolation that aren't taken into account because no one knows what they will be.